Car-truck support.



S. E. AARON.

CAR TRUCK SUFPORTL APPLICATION FILED MAR. name.

1,205,07 1. Patented Nov. 14, 1916.

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Appliea-tiomflled March 11,4916. serialiNo-a83i627.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that L'SQLOMON :E. AARON, a citizen of the United States, residing vat Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car-Truck Supports; and 1 do hereby declare the following to be-a :full, clear, and exact descrip 'tion ofthe invention, such as will enable others-skilled in'the art to =which-iit1 apper- *tains to=make andnuse the same.

This invention relates to railway vrolling 2stock, and more especially to four-wheel t'rucks; and theobject ofathesame=is- -to produce -a support by ineansiof whichrthejtruck frame can beiconnected .with the ear body,

' whateverthe relative position'of these two elements.

It ofte 'occurs in :times 0f accident ithat end of the king bolt may }be sheared off,

when the truck would I drop back on the linljure'd *person. This is rendered more :likely by theadditional .weight whi'ch one or more motorsonone or both axles will produce.

" Hereto-fore --resort has been made {to a special form of 'jack by -mea-ns of which the 't-ruck could beraised, and in its elevationiit would lift the car body 1 but these acksv are not always present, or if present the position of the-car and theconditionofiits surroundingsare not such as permit "the use ofithis type of jack, and especially its quick-use so as to save the life of an ured :person. For instance, on open cars having running "boardsalong thelr sides it is often necessary to saw -01" smash 'arunni'ngboard .in order to permit theuseofa-jackand its crow-foot so th at the latter maygengage the truck or truss rod between the wheels thereof. .In asubway or in other places where-space is limited as, for instanc e, along-a platform, if a car becomes derailed with apersonv'benea-th or near thetruc-kit is notalways possible to insert a jack from the side and therefore it is g sometimes vused under the end of fithecar or beneath theendof oneof -ts sills.

' The -purpose of l the -present invention is to provide a support bycmeans of which tight, andthen the j ack or other means, .Wlllhilfi. This object is ;use .of a support hereinafter more fully dev referred t0.. atailsbf twodiiferent types of supports for this coupling, .trated in dotted dines-in Fig. 3. Fig. 6 is adeta'il showing one of said couplingshung atfone-zend on a cross rod,,and supported in some available and accessible :part of the ,truck frame can be quickly connected With some available and-accessible part of-the car body at several points, after which the support.1s.ad usted so as to makethe connection when .-:the body is lifted by carried out by the scribed and claimed, and as-shown in the drawings evherein Eigurejl is a bottom plan View of oneend of .a car, showingits truck turned at an angle tOiitS body and illustrating a pair of the irodsdescribed herein. "Fig. 2 is {a cross section through the -1floor .its sills, -z-showing .one of said crossrods ports therefor.

ofthe car-body and :on about the .line 2+2 of Fig. l,

and the supiFlg. 3 is an enlarged .sectlonal detail .of :the coupling hereinafter Figs. 4- and I 5 are sectional dethat in Fig. 5 being illusidleipositionby a latch beneaththe car.

.Inthedrawings I have employedthelet- "ter .F :to designatethe car floor and S its $1113, that shown in F ig. 4; being of wood and that shown at-Sin .Fig. 5 being asteel :Ibear'n, although I do notwish to be limited ;in -this particular. The letter T designates broadly .the frame of the ;truck having the truck is lifted wheels dVandaXles A, and oneor both of thelatter mayLhavemotors-Mas shown; and .itlllS entiretruck ismounted on a king-bolt designated by theletter K. No novelty is claimed for 'theparts thus far described and they are only diagrammatically shown in xthe. drawings.

'cominglnowstothe gist'of the present invention, and referring first to Fig. 3, the coupling forming the portable (part of any .improv-ed truckisupfport comprises an up- -perzmember 1 having its upper end hooked .at 2.-and itsloweinend threaded to the right at 3 a lowcrmember thawing its lower. end

hooked as: at. 5, and its upper, end threaded to theileft asatfi; and a turn-buckle 7-betweenitheseimembers, oppositely threaded at rtheopposite endso'fitsboreas usual, and wprovided at its'middength with any suitable "form of handlefiSJsuchasawheel or a. series :of pins. .It .is QbYiQllS that when the upper hook-2 is ;:engaged with a suitable support car body and the lower hook with some part of the truck, this coupling may be used to lift that part of the truck. I provide each car with a number of these couplings which are not of excessive weight or size and may be easily carried at a proper point, and as explained below I provide each car adjacent each of its trucks with suitable members which may be quickly found and readily used as supports for the upper hook of the coupling, while the lower hook thereof wlll be engaged with any part of the truck which can also be conveniently reached.

The numeral 10 designates a rod extending across beneath the'car body, and by preference one of these rods is located nearly above the normal position of each axle. The body of the rod preferably hasdepressions at intervals as indicated at 11 in Fig. 2. Its ends may be turned upward and connected directly with the sills S or S, or said ends may be fastened to the sills by any suitable means as indicated in the same view at 12. Additional means maybe employed between the ends of the rod for connecting it with and supporting it from the floor F, as indicated in the same view at 13. In addition to these supports, I may also provide others, such as the truss 23 and link 24 shown in Fig. 2. The long rods 11, firmly held beneath the car body by any or all of these means, thus constitute supports for couplings which may be adjusted transversely of the car as the position of a derailed truck may demand. But as it often occurs that a coupling is needed directly beneath the sill, I provide other supports such as eye-bolts or screw eyes 14 engaging sills S of wood as seen in Fig. 4., or clamps engaging an I-beam as seen in Fig. 5. In this view each clamp is shown as made of two members 15 and 16 with hooked upper ends engaging the lower flange of the beam S, and two bolts 17 and 18 through the depending straight arms of these members and over either of which the upper hook 2 of the coupling could be passed. It is obvious that the clamps could be slid along on the I-beam sills S, and by this means the coupling could be adjusted longitudinally beneath the car. Yet other supports for the coupling might also be mounted in these sills or other portion of the car body, and need not be illustrated. With several of these fixed supports beneath each sill as indicated in Fig. 1, and with cross rods as also therein shown, there would be some points with which the upper hooks of three or four couplings could be engagedno matter how far the truck had been turned f1'o m its normal position by the supposed accident. It is even possible to have several of the couplings permanently though loosely connected with some of the supports, and held out of the way in idle position as seen in Fig. 6. Herein the upper hook of a coupling is shown as engaged with a rodlO and is carried clear around the same in the form of an eye 2, rather than a hook which might be jolted off and when this coupling is not in use it is, swung up under the car floor and supported in idle position by any appropriate form of latch 20, such as a piece of strap or a'link.

In the use of this truck support, let us assume that an accident has occurred and,

either because an injured person lies on the 7 track adjacent a truck, or because the wheels are derailed and the entire truck must be raised with the car body, it is desirable to quickly connect the truck frame with said body so that when the latter is jacked up the former will move withit. Such couplings as are permanently connected with i their supports as seen in Fig. 6 and are in position where they can be used, are unlatched and let down, and others have their upper hooks 2 engaged either with the rods 10 or with some of the supports in the sills.

The lower hooks of the couplings so used 5 for instance, or if it engaged one of the depressions'll in a rod 10, it cannotmove out of place in case the truck swings or tilts on its king-bolt as itsweight-comes off the ground. It is even possible to use a plu-. rality of these couplings at either sideof the break in an axle, so that such axle will not cant in its boxes or fall out of. the same. Thus I have produced a truck support which is ever ready for instant application in case of need, and which as a whole includes some or all of the supporting elements on the car, and a series of the elements hereinbefore described as couplings.

What I claim is: 7 7

1. In a car truck support, the combination with a coupling consisting of two hooked members and adjustable means connecting their shanks for drawing them tonally thereof and all located in proximity to its truck, whereby the hook of the upper 71118131361 of a coupling may be adjustablv engaged with a support and that of the lower member with the truck frame, for the purpose set forth.

2. In a car truck support, the combination with a coupling consisting of two hooked members and adjustable means connecting their shanks for drawing them toward each other; of rods extending across beneath the car body above and in proximity to each truck and having depressions at certain points along their length, means for supporting said rods from the car-sills, and other means for supporting them at other points.

3. In a car truck support, the combination with an I-beam forming the sill; of a clamp in two members having hooked upper ends embracing the lower flanges of said beam and bolts connecting their lower ends, and a coupling consisting of two hooked members and adjustable means for connecting their shanks, one hook adapted for engagement with said bolt and the other with the car truck.

In testimony whereof I afliX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

SOLOMON E. AARON. lVitnesses BAYARD V. CLEVELAND, JOHN BOYLE OBRIEN.

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